HuffPost 18 March 2010 updated 6 December 2017 By Priti Patel Ten years ago, Susan* was admitted to a public hospital in Namibia for an emergency surgery. She was 20…
By Nicole Fritz Johannesburg — LISTEN to Israel. Listen to Sudan. In their responses to allegations that their officials have committed international crimes they sound remarkably similar. Each maintains it…
Check out the Washington Post’s coverage of our case involving the discrimination of two former employees of the Zambian Air Force. The article does a good job of covering the…
27 August 2009 – Malawi’s Constitutional Court has determined that the imprisonment of Evance Moyo, a juvenile at the time of his arrest, alongside adult prisoners in Chichiri prison from…
RECENT events have brought SA’s relationship with the International Criminal Court (ICC) into sharp focus. Last month was dominated by the question of whether SA — a party to the…
Mail & Guardian By Nicole Fritz Foreign policy realists tell us that the call for a more human rights-weighted foreign policy is naïve. But a strong human rights focus for…
Mail & Guardian Online By Nicole Fritz 15 July 2009 On my desk, I have a memorandum documenting the activities of a number of businesses that have knowingly financed conflict…
By Nicole Fritz Johannesburg — LAST week, Minister for International Relations and Co-operation Maite Nkoana-Mashabane condemned the trial of Myanmar’s Nobel laureate, Aung San Suu Kyi, and called for her…
Business Day By Nicole Fritz Johannesburg — WHEN I travel in southern Africa meeting human rights lawyers and civil society activists, whose work often earns them the enmity of their…
2 May 2009 It’s hard to imagine that the South African government would risk having the inauguration of incoming president, Jacob Zuma overshadowed by having to arrest President Omar Hassan al…